7 Charts Explaining U.S. Business Travelers' Booking Habits
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More business travelers are growing frustrated with their companies' corporate booking tools and that leads them to go off on their own to book their trips. Corporations hate it but some 42% of business travelers in a survey leave their companies in the dark in terms of where they're staying and which flights they'll be on.
The convenience of booking business travel is a luxury not every U.S. business traveler can enjoy thanks to sometimes confusing corporate travel policies and relatively arcane booking tools.
A Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) and Carlson Wagonlit Travel survey released this week found that major fault lines exist between U.S. business travelers who use their companies' online booking tools and those who don't. More than half of respondents said they have to inform their company of their bookings i
